As the May 20 primary election looms ever closer, it might come as surprise to some that the candidate who appears to be rising to the top of the supersaturated U.S. Senate field is not one of the usual suspects, but a political newcomer.

In the most recent poll commissioned by WSB-TV Channel 2 in Atlanta, former Dollar General CEO David Perdue has taken the lead from the sitting Congressmen who have been expected to vie for the seat being vacated by Saxby Chambliss.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a critical law for making sure the public has a fighting chance to get copies of records the government might not want it to see. For more than 40 years, people have used the FOIA to uncover evidence of government waste, fraud, abuse and illegality. More benignly, FOIA has been used to better understand the development and effects – positive and negative—of the federal government’s policies.

ATLANTA — A puzzle for the business and education community supporting the multi-state education standards known as Common Core is why conservatives are so opposed.

Supporters argue the standards are supposed to provide more rigor while also serving as the basis to compare student performance between states. Former Gov. Sonny Perdue helped launch it because he felt Georgia pupils were being shortchanged by unequal comparisons.

Expecting Barrack Obama and John Kerry to clean up the mess between Russia and Ukraine is like expecting your dog to clean up his, or her, mess in the yard. Now folks, I’ll admit that I’ve been very critical of the Obama administration over the last five years. I reckon I want to see some success, but it’s hard for me to expect it.